Xinjiang has been under control of China since it was annexed in 1949. Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist ...

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement claimed responsibility for two attacks on government officials in Xinjiang in 2011, while Beijing blamed it for the 2013 car bomb attack in Tiananmen Square ...

Notably, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is active in China's volatile Xinjiang province. China's permanent representative to the UN, Fu Cong, at the UN Security Council Briefing on ...

Geng’s comment came days after the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) published a propaganda video encouraging Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to wage jihad, or holy war, in China.